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FEMALE FOETICIDE AND INFANTICIDE IN INDIA AN ANALYSIS OF CRIMES AGAINST GIRL CHILDREN

    1 Author(s):  PROF SUKHADEV GHASTI

Vol -  9, Issue- 10 ,         Page(s) : 34 - 42  (2018 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

Sex specific premature births and increment in the quantity of female child murder caseshave become a huge social wonder in a few pieces of India. It rises above all stations, class and networks and even the North South polarity. The young lady kids become focus of assault even before they are conceived. Various researchers have seen that the most recent advances in current medicinal sciences – the tests like Amniocentesis and Ultra-sonography which were initially intended for identification of inborn variations from the norm of the baby, are being abused for knowing the sex of the hatchling with the expectation of prematurely ending it on the off chance that it happens to be that of a female. The most exceedingly awful circumstance is the point at which these premature births are done well past the protected time of 12 weeks jeopardizing the ladies' life. This paper hypothetically investigations the greatness of the frequency of female foeticide and child murder in India.

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